It’s truly amazing … historic, really … that we’ve managed to elect the first African-American president. But as a black man, Obama is going to be held to a higher standard during his first term, his first year, and his first 100 days than any other president in the history of this country. Don’t even think about a holding your plane on a runway so you can get an expensive haircut, Mr. President-elect. Don’t think you can get away with the mistakes that Clinton and Bush made during their first months in office. There are going to be a very outspoken few who will be waiting to pounce on his first mistake. And they will be loud. And they will bare their fangs every chance they get. It’s going to be a brutal first few months, days and weeks that are going to really test this man’s mettle.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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